First, big up to
Andile on her nomination for the Woman of the Year Award. Congratualations sisi, I'm not sure if we get to vote, but if we do, I'll vote for you! And might I add, she looked nice last night, well, compared to the normal anyway.
Ok, so maybe the picture doesn't do her much justice, mara shame, she was looking better.
Anyway, let me proceed:
Story 1
In the first story, we meet Mbali, a troubled teenager who has strained relations with her mother. Philile is Mbali’s friend, who is concerned about Mbali’s situation.
MbaliMbali tells us that her mother never showed her love, continuosly hurt her, and was generally a bad mother to her. She says she does not want to go to her mother as she has hurt her too much. After much sobbing, and encourangement from Philile, she agrees to go to her mother, and ask for her forgiveness.
So Mbali, Philile, Philile’s mother, and a priest head to see Mbali’s mother, with the understanding that Mbali is to ask for her mother’s forgiveness.
However, on arrival, it is clear that Mbali is not in a “forgiveness” mood. She shoots off at ther mother, pointing at her, blaming her for kicking her out. The priest quickly calls her to order, reminding her that one humbles herself when she asks for forgiveness. She then continues to tell her mother that Msawe is her boyfriend, and she will not leave him. (More about boyfriends later).
The priest, reprimanding Mbali
This infuriates her mother, who says Mbali is not here to apologise, but to flash her boyfriend at her! She then retaliates, saying she doesn’t care about Mbali, and in not so many words, she can go to hell!
It is in the midst of all this tension that Mbali’s grandmother arrives, to unwittingly add fuel to an already steadily burning fire. In between the priest calling everyone to order, and Mbali’s mother telling her own mother not say anything, we learn about Mbali’s indiscretions.
Mbali, unidentified woman, and Mbali's motherAccording to her mother, some boys came one night at midnight asking for Mbali, and these were apparently all her men! Mbali’s mother then decided that Mbali should live with her, and thus took her back to Empangeni. However, Mbali arrived in Empangeni only to become a serial dater, “eqoma ngapha nangapha”, to use her mother’s words. A woman then went to Mbali’s mother, telling her about Mbali’s numerous men, and advising her that seeing that Mbali is growing, it would be best to start talking to her about these issues, and advising her accordingly. Mbali’s mother then did this, and as you can imagine, because Mbali has many a boyfriend, I became confuse as to who is who. You see, apparently Mbali is with a Buthelezi boy(the Msawe I mentioned earlier I assume), who her mother despises, because this Buthelezi boy was disrespectful enough to go and fetch Mbali at home, with ther parents and family there, and he allegedly even shouted at her infront of Mbali!
Since the mood is a revealing one, Mbali’s mother goes on to tell us that the only reason Mbali is her, is to bring shame upon her, telling people that she did/does nothing for her, when in fact, she would buy Mbali clothes, and Mbali would sell her clothes, so she could buy the Buthelezi boy some airtime! It is at this point tha Gogo interjects, only to be met by shouts to “shut up” from her daughter, following by wailing from Mbali, oh my goodness, classic KK drama!
It is not until the sun sets, that a hint of peace is finally in sight. Mbali tells her mother that she loves her(numerous times), and that she just wants her to put her through school again, as she is willing to attend. Her mother narrates her dreams for Mbali(nothing special, just the usual get a job, family, blah blah). And so like that, the issue is resolved. Rather weird since the priest was suddenly no longer in the picture. Oh well.
Story 2: We meet Nomazizi Tshotsho from Ginsnburg, and her nephew Vuyile. Vuyile wrote to KK because his mother always spoke about a lost child. In 1951 (I’ll come back to the issue of the year), Vuyile’s sister, Nomvuyo, was kidnapped while playing with other children, at the time, she was only 4 years old. Upon realising that the child was missing, her family search the entire neighbourhood, with no luck. They opened a case with the police, went to sangomans, all to no avail, as to this day, the child was never found. However, the day after the child went missing, the family found out that the child was in fact taken by someone called Sphethukane. They found this out because for some reason, Sphethukane had taken the child to the butchery after stealing her(for padkos perhaps?), and the woman at the butchery had recongnised the child as being Nomvuyo. On making an enquiry, Sphethukane told the woman that she was helping Nomvuyo’s family.
Nomazizi and VuyileAnd so like that, the child was gone.
Nomazizi received a call one day that the child was actually in Mount Frere. Vuyile went to enquire, but was told by that the child had since married, however no cows were seen by her “then” family, thus, they could not offer information about her whereabouts. On the issue of the years, At first, they said the child was taken in 1967, then they said 1951, then Andile said 49 years ago, which would make it 1959. So i'm not too sure when all this happened.
Anyway, since they know that she is somewhere in Mnt Frere, they decided to head there again, and enlist the help of a cousin, who tells us he knows where Nomvuyo is.
When they arrive at the first homestead, they find out that Sphethukana has since died, and are sent to another place. At this place, again they are sent somewhere else, and it all looks rather bleak.
It is at this point that a call I had been waiting for all day came in, and I was on the phone for the next 90 mins, thus missed the ending of this story.
To those who watched, please fill me in, did they find her?